On the Border Line (1910)
Here we have a picture of a happy home, a loving husband, a devoted wife and little daughter. The husband leaves the house: he is no sooner gone when the wife receives a letter from her brother whom she has not seen for years, saying that he is coming to see her and the family and will probably arrive as soon as the letter. The husband is well on his way to the office when rain begins to fall and he is reminded that he has forgotten his umbrella and returns home to get it. When he reaches the house he glances in the window and sees his wife in the embrace of her brother, whom he does not recognize, and becoming jealous and suspicions, he does not wait for explanation. In desperation and in the grip of the "Green-eyed Monster," he stops at a drug store and buys poison, contemplating suicide. Arriving at his office, he finds a cake sent to his wife by her aunt, in his care; like a flash, a thought of revenge comes into his mind; he will poison the cake. Pouring the poison upon it, he sends the cake to his wife at once, thinking she and the brother will eat it. Receiving the cake, the wife gives the bearer of the cake a note to take back to her husband, telling him of the arrival of her brother. When the husband gets this information he is struck with remorse and hastens home to warn his family not to eat the cake. He arrives with a doctor, too late, they have eaten the cake. The husband is crazed with grief and fear, but the doctor finds that the druggist, probably noticing the husband's agitation, gave him a harmless fluid. The wife is dumbfounded at her husband's lack of confidence in her. He humbly craves her pardon, but she has decided to leave him. Through the pleadings of their child and love for her, the wife forgives all and a reconciliation is brought about.
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